From out in left field: What is Death Stranding other than a hiking simulator? The bizarre game is hard to put into words, but you are required to do a lot of walking. So it was perhaps inevitable that someone got the idea to take the game to a whole new level.

We have seen and reported on various weird and interesting video game controllers over the years. Whether it is an out-of-the-box (or can) promotional item like Miller’s Beer Can gamepad or elaborate

In brief: NASA has chosen the Maxar Intelsat 40e geostationary satellite as the host for sending its air pollution sensor into space. The payload will take hourly measurements of atmospheric gases over North America and help in improving air quality forecasting.

NASA says that the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument will measure North America's atmosphere quality in unprecedented detail during daylight hours when the payload goes into orbit onboard the Intelsat 40e geostationary communications satellite in 2022.

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Why it matters: There are some programs that have been part of Windows for decades, such as Notepad, Paint, and WordPad. While useful for quick tasks, they can’t be removed from the operating system, but that’s going to change in an upcoming update.

Notepad and Paint have been installed by Windows automatically since version 1.0 of the operating system launched in 1985. WordPad, meanwhile, has been installed automatically since 1995 with the launch of Windows 95

Bottom line: In the three-month period ending December 31, Alphabet said revenue grew from $39.3 billion at the end of 2018 to $46.1 billion this year. Net income, meanwhile, climbed from $8.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018 to $10.7 billion during the same time frame in 2019. Diluted earnings per share checked in at $15.35, up from $1

In context: AMD has big plans for 2020, which can be summarized as "doubling down" on beefier 7nm CPUs and GPUs. Asrock, who is known for its motherboards and PC hardware offerings, has seen its revenues soar thanks to gamers buying its AMD-based motherboards, so the company is expecting even bigger gains for the year ahead.

Asrock isn't the biggest player in the motherboard market, but the company may have found the perfect opportunity to boost its position within the industry by

Oops! Microsoft's enterprise-oriented Teams communication software has gotten better and better as of late. A couple of months ago, the software even made the jump to Linux, opening up its feature set to an entirely new userbase. However, as great as Teams is, it was inaccessible to many users for several hours this morning for reasons unknown (until later).

The service went down without warning, and many users were forced to find alternative ways to communicate with their peers. The timing was especially unfortunate

In brief: If you can’t be bothered to take your Apple device into a nearby store or ship it off for servicing, a repair tech may come to you. The company has initiated a “new” program that will send an authorized Apple Service Provider to your home to fix your broken iPhone.

According to Apple’s support website , users may opt to have a specialist come to their home for certain types of repairs. There are some limitations to the service, however.

First, while we only

In brief: An artist from Berlin has proven just how easy it can be to manipulate Google Maps' real-time traffic data. With a wagon full of phones, he was able to create virtual traffic jams and presumably reroute traffic, causing others to unnecessarily avoid the area. Clever or dangerous?

Google for well over a decade has used colored overlays in its mapping application to illustrate real-time traffic conditions. Green means smooth sailing, yellow indicates some crowding and red signifies a bona fide traffic jam.

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